First Page Friday!

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by Leigh Martens8 views·Updated Jan 27, 2021
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  1. Hey, everybody, Welcome to first page Friday's My Name is
  2. Lee Martins and giving you a sneak peek on something
  3. that's in your library today that you're going to want
  4. to pick up.
  5. The book chosen for you today is called What I
  6. Carry, and this book is by Jennifer Long ago, and
  7. this story is told from a girl who is growing
  8. up in the foster care system.
  9. She's about 17 years old.
  10. She's been tossed from house to house.
  11. She's never been adopted.
  12. Um, she makes an effort to never get attached to
  13. anyone because she has never had time to really get
  14. relationships going because she's just moving from house to house,
  15. right? There's no room for any baggage.
  16. She's got one more year left in the foster care
  17. system before she's independent, and she could get out and
  18. be on her own.
  19. She wants nothing in her way.
  20. She just wants to live her life.
  21. But then she meets some people.
  22. She meets two girls and then I love interest on
  23. everything is blown out of the water.
  24. So here comes your first page.
  25. You will never in all of your life meet a
  26. person who packs a better suitcase than I do.
  27. And I'll tell you right now, the secret is not
  28. organization. It is simplification.
  29. Get rid of your crap.
  30. Do not own things in the first place.
  31. Surrendered the weight of what you carry and the wild
  32. wide world is yours Pack light, which sounds easy when
  33. in doubt, go without and all that.
  34. But toe archive true freedom You must be brutal as
  35. a consumer is dental floss on sale Two for one
  36. Don't fall for it.
  37. One extra thing taking up room to pack and repack.
  38. And besides that, what if your teeth fallout before you
  39. ever needed to use it?
  40. Now you're the dummy hauling around extra floss for no
  41. reason. Yes.
  42. Flaw ce insignificant.
  43. Wait until you add it to that pen.
  44. You bought the T shirt.
  45. You had to have the non travel sized thing of
  46. shampoo until one day you wake up dragging the weight
  47. of a rolling suitcase taller and heavier than your own
  48. body, and you're exhausted trying to keep track of all
  49. the things you've convinced yourself you need.
  50. Where did I leave that?
  51. Did someone take the other?
  52. Why can't I find my socks underneath All these stupid
  53. boxes of loss trapped.
  54. My packing credentials were passed to me from from my
  55. namesake and honed since birth straight into foster care and
  56. never adopted.
  57. The longest I've ever lived in a house is 11
  58. months, and now I am 17 years old.
  59. So you do the math.
  60. Okay, guys, juicy Get you some.
  61. Check this out of your library today.
  62. And I cannot wait to hear what you think of
  63. what I carry until I see you next time.
  64. Happy reading.